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Fourth Estate - Final Episode
Television (Full Length) – 1988
14 Sep 2015 - 10.44pm
I think he would be horrified at the amount of reality TV and other rubbish that perpetuates our screens today. Not to mention the decline of newspapers and the rise of the internet. Maybe if this show was on today he would examine the effects of the internet across all media too.
8 Nov 2011 - 10.03am
I don't know if Brian is still around but he would be horrified at the standard of journalism and the print/tv media of today- trivialisation and superficiality 100%, absolutely diabolical! Do they actually bother to still have journalism programmes at universities and polytechnics? For TV, just employ pretty young woman under 30 and for print media the same or those that are sympathetic to the paper owners political bias-simple really!
3 Nov 2011 - 10.03pm
Great to see these. "trivialisation and superficiality" Ha! there's been a fair bit of that since '88
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